What are the postoperative care for breast cancer?

When breast cancer develops to an advanced stage, surgery is necessary. In order to prevent the disease and metastasis of cancer cells after surgery, postoperative care must be done properly. If not handled properly, it will cause many complications to your body. Let’s take a look at what postoperative care for breast cancer is like. I hope all patients will pay enough attention to this.

1. Postoperative care for breast cancer should begin as soon as the patient completes surgery. Once the patient has completed surgery and safely left the operating room, postoperative care begins. After the operation, the patient's blood pressure, pulse, respiration, body temperature and other vital signs should be closely observed, and the bleeding and oozing of the surgical wound should be observed. Once a problem is found, it should be promptly and appropriately treated. If low fever and wound pain occur within the first few days after surgery, it is usually caused by surgical trauma and is a normal phenomenon. It can be left untreated or given symptomatic treatment. If high fever occurs, and the wound pain is severe, accompanied by local exudation from the wound, it may be a postoperative infection and should be treated with antibiotics. If the general condition is good after the operation, you can move around appropriately, which will help wound healing, reduce the occurrence of postoperative complications, and allow you to resume normal life as soon as possible. In order to prevent lymphedema of the affected upper limb after surgery, upper limb exercises should be performed in time, such as raising, abducting, internally and externally rotating, and swinging the affected arm back and forth and left and right. Exercise should be gradual and you should not rush for results. Exercise should be done according to one's ability and not forced. Exercise needs to be continuous and not intermittent.

2. Psychological care plays a major role in postoperative care for breast cancer. In the postoperative care of breast cancer patients, psychological care should also be emphasized. Most patients lose one breast after the operation, and their postoperative prognosis is still unknown. One can imagine how the patients feel. We should pay attention to their emotional changes, and provide timely guidance and persuasion if any abnormalities are found, and encourage patients to face reality bravely. For more sensitive patients, you should avoid analyzing their condition too much in front of them to prevent them from becoming suspicious and anxious. Avoid all mental stimulation to the patient, ensure that he or she has adequate sleep and a good mental state, and overcome the disease with full fighting spirit.

3. Postoperative care for breast cancer should include reasonable arrangements for the patient's diet. Apart from taking medications during treatment or following doctor's orders to avoid certain foods due to changes in their condition, breast cancer patients generally have no special diet compared to normal people. The following dietary recommendations are for reference by patients and their families. Diet should cooperate with treatment: Breast cancer patients should try to eat and supplement nutrition before and after surgery. Rich nutrition can help the body go through the surgery smoothly, promote wound healing, and recover health as soon as possible. During radiotherapy and chemotherapy, due to the adverse effects of the treatment, the patient's sense of taste and appetite decrease, and gastrointestinal reactions such as nausea and vomiting may occur. At this time, the patient should realize that this is only a temporary pain, and consciously overcome these side effects with an optimistic spirit and tenacious will, and insist on eating a moderate amount of easily digestible, highly nutritious food to ensure that the body can accept and complete various treatment plans on time. Eat in moderation and don’t eat too much: Overnutrition and obesity have adverse effects on the occurrence and development of breast cancer

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Postoperative care is something that many people tend to overlook, and they often fail to pay attention to their daily behavioral habits. Viral infection may occur after surgery. Therefore, I hope that after reading the above postoperative treatment matters, everyone can have a new understanding and pay enough attention to it after the operation, pay attention to personal hygiene, etc.